Romanian photographer Bogdan Gîrbovan has created a series of photos that detail how financial status, taste and pride impact on living spaces.
The photographer approached the tenants of the apartment block in which he lived. Starting on the tenth floor, he photographed the interior of each of the flats beneath. Each flat is identical in layout to the one above, but the individual tastes of the tenant render the spaces pretty much unrecognizable.
The series is an interesting comment on the failure of communism.
The gallery site says: “A documentation of the communist blocks of flats, the series is an insight to the virtual infinity of shapes that an identically projected space can take; despite the fact that during communism people were placed in identical apartments, in an attempt to prevent any individualistic inclinations of the new man, who was not supposed to have anything of his own”.
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